Time Walker is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by Tom Kennedy.

Unbeknownst to Douglas, the "mummy" is not the body of a dead Egyptian, but an extraterrestrial alien in suspended animation, being wrapped up and buried alive thousands of years before and covered with a dormant, green fungus.

The body is brought back to California and Douglas has it examined by Dr. Ken Melrose and X-rayed by student Peter Sharpe before a big press conference about the discovery.

However, University President Wendell Rossmore wants to pin the "theft" on Douglas, so that he can give the Egyptian department's directorship to his flunkie, Dr. Bruce Serrano.

The alien violently reclaims its crystals, and, when he brutally attacks a female student, Lt. Plummer is called in to investigate the crime.

The alien activates the device by placing the last recovered crystal on it; his mummy wrappings disintegrate, revealing his true form.

Bruce grabs the crystal, and the fungus begins to destroy his hand, as the film ends stating: "To Be Continued."

Factory released it on DVD bundled with few other New World films: Lady Frankenstein, The Velvet Vampire, and Grotesque on September 27, 2011.

TV Guide rated it 1/5 stars and called it a clichéd mummy film notable only for the non-traditional monster, which moves quickly.

[11] Evansville Courier & Press staff writer Patrice Smith was negative towards Tom Kennedy's direction and the writing, calling the screenplay "ludicrously illiterate".

Smith considered the film to be a pathetic attempt at turning mummy movies into a contemporary Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[12] Desmond Ryan for The Philadelphia Inquirer considered the film to be a rip-off Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.

[16] Film critic Leonard Maltin gave it a "BOMB" rating, calling it "low-budget junk.

"[22] The MST3K version of Being from Another Planet was included as part of the Mystery Science Theater 3000, Volume XXXV DVD collection, released by Shout!